Old Uconn memory

[Hoophound]

The January week with wins over Syracuse and Georgetown in '89 was one of the most exhilarating week of my sports life. I literally was walking on air. It was similar 10 years later in the '99 Final Four.

What made both of those weeks so euphoric was we broke cbb barriers I thought were unattainable for my little alma mater. I covered the move to The Big East for Daily Campus but never imagined we were worthy of a national championship.

In my heart, while experiencing it all, I knew I was squarely living in "the good old days."

Great last line. Sometimes you just know, “it isn’t going to get any better than this.” That was one of those times for me.

 

[Waquoit]

Sometimes you just know, “it isn’t going to get any better than this.” That was one of those times for me.

I get it. The week before that BET, I was at a Vegas Sports Book with a couple of buddies when they posted the odds to win the thing: UConn 8/5, Cuse 9/5, GTown 2-1. I say to my buddies, "Can you freaking believe UConn is favored?" And I meant it the way of never thinking anything approaching UConn being favored to win the Big East would ever happen, and yet there it was in front of me. The guy selling tickets overhears me and heard what I said thinking I was a tourist that didn't follow the game. He says to me, "No, UConn is really good this year. I think the're gonna win it." That was awesome, validation 3 time zones away.

 

[coachn]

Was at St Pete in 99 and sat behind the Duke Crazys picture on den wall the best.

 

[2ndFlBelden]

I was at the ACC-Big East Challenge in 89’ too. I always remember it being Brian Oliver that had a big game for Tech. Could be wrong.

I was like 16 at the time and a friend and I got into town early and hung around all day. Had lunch at Brown Thompson’s and then generally loitered. We went into the Sheraton lobby and the whole MD team was there. We started talking to a player named Jesse Martin. He just kept saying,”We gonna kick some a.., we gonna kick some butt”. Seemed rather dopey. He was ineligible the next year but at least he was nice to a couple punks.

May have lost to Duke, but Rod Seller let Duke know, UConn would be back.